Cathy Elliott argues that the disruption to our usual experience of daily life - whether in times of industrial action or lockdown - demonstrates to us that our experience of time is not natural but produced, and highly political. Crisis should challenge us to think about how we collectively change the timing of our society.

Class structures experiences in the current pandemic and how different groups are responding to it. Recognising this will be vital to building a different and better world once the crisis begins to pass, argues Craig Berry.

The Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated the importance of the 'foundational economy', and the significance of 'rooted firms' which have longstanding relationships with their customers and broader communities. Will Brett argues that economic policy should be reoriented to prioritise such rooted firms.

Renewal Contributing Editor Christine Berry argues that the premature leadership contest is preventing the Labour left from learning the lessons of defeat in 2019, and building a winning coalition in communities across Britain.

Craig Berry argues that Lisa Nandy has constructed the most compelling account of Labour’s 2019 defeat – and a set of intellectual resources through which it might be reversed. Whoever is Labour's next leader, they must make use of this.

Richard Douglas argues for a synthesis of Corbynomics – which is more social democratic than it has usually been painted – with a centrist approach to doing politics and to relating to the electorate that is more intellectually and culturally pluralist.

Christine Berry argues that the long-term erosion of trust in politics and democracy itself has made politics more difficult for the left. Community organising and ‘movement politics’ could help to counter this, if done right.

Camilla Schofield argues the election was less the end of progressive politics in Labour’s ‘heartland’ and more a symptom of an ongoing tension within British socialism between liberal internationalism and protectionism.

Lise Butler analyses the intellectual and political roots of Corbynism in a political project which sought to represent not a metropolitan elite, but the capital’s multicultural and working-class communities.

In the aftermath of defeat, Paul Thompson argues the Corbynite hegemony within the party should be broken up, but that much of the radical energy and ideas generated in the Corbyn years can and should be retained – within a more pluralist Labour project.

On a chilly night in November, over 200 people gathered at Queen Mary University of London to hear about Corbynism's new political economy. Here, two of its organisers report on the discussion and questions raised for the future of 'Corbynomics'.

The left must avoid the 'pendulum fallacy' and pay attention to how political change has come about in the past if our current political deadlock is to be broken with a shift to the left, and not towards new forms of right-wing nationalism and nativism.

Martin O'Neill talks with Fernando Atria, Professor of Law at the Universidad de Chile, and the candidate of the left for the presidential nomination of the Socialist Party at the last election, about the past, present and future of socialism in Chile.

Martin O'Neill talks with Andrés Lajous, new Secretary of Mobility in the city government of Mexico City, about the role of transport policy in creating more just societies, strategies for overcoming inequalities of wealth and power, and the emergence of a new left populism within Mexico.

Martin O'Neill talks with Sergio Silva-Castañeda, of the Mexican Ministry of the Economy, about the political earthquake that has brought President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to power, and the ambitions of AMLO's new leftist administration in tackling corruption and inequality in Mexico.

We reflexively see unemployment as a lack of jobs; but it may also be possible to manage labour demand as well as supply. If we upend the view that economic growth must be the core goal of economic policy, John Marlow argues, other routes forward appear on the horizon.

At last month's Labour conference, James Stafford met Luke Cooper and Marina Prentoulis of Another Europe is Possible to discuss the group's campaign for a new Brexit vote, and the prospects for 'Remain and Reform'.

Martin O'Neill talks with Senator Jenny McAllister (Labor, NSW) of the Australian Labor Party, about Australia's economic and political trajectory since the Great Financial Crisis, and prospects for a turn to the left with the next ALP government.

Michael Jacobs talks to Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite about the IPPR's Commission on Economic Justice: theories of change, identifying your enemies, and the policies that have the potential to bring about a transformation in our economy.

Andrew Carter argues that Labour has bold ideas for the renewal of local democracy, and they must be combined with a willingness to embrace the opportunities offered by the devolution agenda. But the party needs to marry the radicalism of its democratic platform with an industrial policy that looks to the future - and that means focusing on the 'everyday economy'.

Fifty years on from 1968, Alex Campsie asks what we can learn from the activism of the 1960s and 1970s about the value of spectacle and the use of space in the production of political change - and whether we can now move 'beyond the fragments'.

During the miners' strike of 1984-5 many women from mining areas worked tirelessly to support the strike, organising support for miners and their families, campaigning and standing on picket lines. This blog looks at the ways intersections of class and gender worked in the building of solidarity during the strike.

In Part III of our Renewal interview, Ed MIliband and Martin O'Neill pass the time on a railway journey from Leeds to Preston, discussing ideas for the future of the left, touching on the case for non-reformist reforms; the Preston Model; Streeck, Atkinson, Piketty, Polanyi and, of course, A-ha.

In Part II of our Renewal interview, Ed Miliband and Martin O'Neill discuss the politics of the tech industry, the case for democratizing Facebook, and the lessons to be learned from the history of progressive responses to excess market power.

Ed Miliband has recently launched a new podcast series, Reasons to be Cheerful, looking at big ideas for the future of the left. Renewal caught up with him for a chat about some of these ideas. In Part I of this conversation we discuss the case for Universal Basic Income.

In our fifth post on GE17, Richard Douglas critiques Compass' account of a 'progressive alliance', and suggests that the key to Labour’s winning the next election may lie in Tory voters swinging behind the Liberal Democrats.

In the fourth of our General Election responses, Amina Lone reflects on a volatile and inconclusive election, and the need for Labour to further broaden its appeal in order to break Britain's political stalemate.

In our second response to the General Election result, Lise Butler argues that Labour's gains were the result of a message and policy platform that is confidently delivered, concrete and forward-looking.

In the first of a series of responses to the 2017 General Election, Emily Robinson suggests that it marked a shift in patterns of political memory, as Tory myths about the 1970s and 1980s lost their grip on public discourse.

The pro-Brexit stance taken by many of Labour's MPs is not leading the party to victory in by-elections. The party needs to show political leadership and go after May's hollow posturing as a 'tough negotiator'.

Craig Berry, Deputy Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, writes that Donald Trump’s election reminds us that world order is based on American imperial power, not liberal ideals. The American empire’s unravelling will now be accelerated.

'Devo Manc' opens opportunities for the left, and Labour should be arguing for more metro-devolution, not as an alternative to a national strategy, but as an accompaniment to it. And Labour can learn something from Greater Manchester about how a sense of place, past and patriotism can form part of a progressive narrative.

Steve Iliffe responds to Jessica Studdert's call for more local control within the NHS, but asks whether the pressures of an ageing population are really the critical issue, and what a move towards localism in the NHS would really look like.

After the Brexit vote, Cathy Elliott challenges three common myths: that elections and referenda are express our pre-existing identities; that the outcome of a referendum or election is sacrosanct because it is democratic; and that democracy is always a peaceful way of resolving difference.

Jo Cox was a staunch advocate of 'Responsibility to Protect' as a central element of a progressive foreign policy. The ideals Jo stood for are more important than ever now and must be remembered and fought for. Yasmine Nahlawi outlines what R2P should mean for Labour now.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership campaign was based on his moral authority, in turn said to be the key to renewing the party’s appeal in its traditional heartlands. Deploying recent research on the psychological basis of morality, and its relationship to political views, Bill Blackwater suggests that this view was always misguided.

Commissioning Editor Claudia Chwalisz argues that, in an age of technocracy, referenda and populism, participatory and deliberative mechanisms are crucial to the survival of pluralist, tolerant democracies.

In a piece we’ll be publishing in the journal later this year, George Morris examines Universal Credit's Thatcherite lineage and asks whether it could be transformed by a Labour government into a system that worked to truly counter poverty.

Social historian Ewan Gibbs asks what 'class politics' should mean for Labour in a largely post-industrial context. Too often, 'culture wars' over hummus and McDonalds take centre-stage, obscuring the realities of structured social and economic inequality.